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Q.1 The Oscar statuette is 13.5 inch tall and weighs 3.85 kegs. Its a figure of a knight with a sword standing on a reel of film with 5 spokes, representing the original branches of the Academy i.e. Actors, Writers, Directors, Producers, and Technicians. Now tell whats the colour of the Oscar award?
Answer:C
Gold
Q.2 The Oscar statuette is made of gold plated Britannium, an alloy of Tin, Antimony and Copper. But once it was made of plaster and presented to the winners. When and why? Though it was later replaced with the actual ones.
This was done in World War II in support of the effort of America and the demand of metals was huge that time for weapons.
Q.3 There is a rule that the winners or their heirs cannot sell the award to anyone without offering it to sell to Academy for a certain price. What is the price that Academy has marked for such sale?
Answer:C
US $1. Really, its just one dollar
Q.4 The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), has almost 6000 voting members, who vote for various categories to choose the winners. A particular company has the responsibility to count the votes and keeping it secret till the last moment. Which is that company that audits this whole process.
Answer:B
PriceWaterhouseCoopers
Q.5 For film to be qualified as a feature film in Oscars has to be of certain minutes of length?. How many minutes?
Answer:A
40 minutes
Q.6 he Oscar awards are being presented in Kodak Theatre since 2002. In 2012 the name was changed to Dolby Theatre. Why?
Kodak used to pay $75 million each year for the naming rights but in 2012 Kodak has filed for bankruptcy and hence the name change as Dolby Laboratories have entered in a 20 years agreement.
Q.7 The Oscars have been postponed 3 times in history. Once in 1981 it was delayed by a day as there was an assassination attempt on then US president Ronald Reagan. Also in 1968 it was postponed by a few days as funeral of Martin Luther King Jr. and in 1938 it was delayed by a week due to floods in Los Angeles area. But in 2003 no foreign press was invited and the red carpet was just limited till the door of the auditorium. Why?
Just before the awards function day US army had invaded Iraq.
Q.8 Charlie Chaplin's "Limelight" was produced in 1952 but it won the Oscars only in 1972. How?
The rules require the movie to be played in Los Angeles for consideration for Oscars and Limelight finally managed to get played in Los Angeles in 1972. Rules are rules and cannot be broken :)
Q.9 Dudley Nichols refused Oscar in 1935 for best screenplay due to conflict between Writer's guild and Academy. In 1970 George Scott refused for the best actor's award and in 1972 Marlon Brando refused for Best Actor for the film "The Godfather" citing discrimination against native Americans by Hollywood and US. But there is one person who has won 4 Oscar awards and has neither accepted nor refused the award and always is MIA "Missing In Action" in Oscar functions?
Answer:B
Woody Allen
Q.10 Who is the youngest one to receive an Oscar
Answer:A
Shirley Temple and it was an honourary award.
Q.11 The following people won Oscar in competitive category after having won the "Lifetime achievement award" with one exception. Who is he?
Answer:D
Al Pacino
Q.12 Who is the only person to win a Noble prize and an Oscar?
Answer:A
George Bernard Shaw. He won Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925, and the 1938 Academy Award for Best Screenplay for the film adaptation of Pygmalion. Rest of the people were nominated for Oscar in addition to winning the Noble but they finally did not win the Oscar. In case of Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth was a 2006 Academy Award winning documentary film directed by Davis Guggenheim about Al Gore's campaign to educate people regarding global warming
Q.13 Who won the most Oscar awards?
Answer:B
Walt Disney, a total of 22 competitive and 4 honourary.
Q.14 Who was the first African American to win an Oscar award?
Answer:D
Hattie McDaniel won Best Supporting Actress in Gone With the Wind, Sidney Poitier was the first to win Oscar for Best Actor actegory.
NewsQ.15 What is common to Alexander Knox (1944) in the movie Wilson, Jack Nicholson (1981) in the movie Reds, Russell Crowe in "A Beautiful Mind" (2001) and Morgan Freeman in "Invictus" (2009).
They were nominated for Oscars for playing winners of the Nobel prize?
Q.16 The first Indian film to have entered for Best Foreign Film category was
Answer:C
Mother India in 1957
Q.17 Who represented India maximum number of times in Oscars
Answer:A
Kamal Hassan. He represented 7 times of which once for direction and rest as actor
Q.18 Which Indian has won Oscar and Grammy for the same piece of work.
Answer:C
Gulzar. He received the Oscar and the Grammy for the lyrics of the song "Jai Ho" and he did not go to receive the award.
Q.19 Which of the following films was not finally nominated for the Best Foreign Film
Answer:B
Taare Zamin Pe. Rest all were nominated to the final list. These are the only three Indian movies that were ever nominated in Oscars
Q.20 Who was the first Indian to win an Oscar Award
Answer:C
Bhanu Athaiya for Best Costume Design for the film Gandhi in 1980 and she shared it with John Molio
Q.21 Who is the only Indian to win two Oscars
Answer:A
A R Rahman for Best Score and Best Original Song for Slumdog Millionaire (2008). He was nominated twice in 2011 for Best Original song for 'If I Rise' and Best Original Score for "127 Hours" but did not win.
Q.22 Which director represented India for maximum number of times
Answer:B
Satyajit Ray. He represented thrice, Apur Sansar, Mahanagar and Sharanj Ke Khiladi. But none of them ever got nominated.
Q.23 Other than Hindi which language film represented India in Best Foreign film category in Oscar awards for maximum times other than Hindi
Answer:D
Tamil. A total of 8 films. Rest all figured 2 times each.
Q.24 Who is the only Indian to have won Technical Oscar award
Resul Pookutty for Best Sound Mixing award for Slumdog Millionaire (2008) and he shared it with Ian Tapp and Richard Pryke.
Nuggets
Titanic and All About Eve have the record of maximum (14) Oscar nominations.
Katharine Hepburn has won 4 acting awards: Best Actress- Morning Glory (1933), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? (1967), The Lion in Winter (1968), On Golden Pond (1981). Jack Nicholson, Ingrid Bergman, and Walter Brennan all have won 3 acting Oscar Awards.
Wings (1927) was the first movie to win an Osacr for the Best Picture. It was also the only silent movie to win.
Meryl Streep has been nominated 19 times and Jack Nicholson 12 times for Oscar awards.
Frank Capra's "It Happened One Night" became the first film to win the top five categories; Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Screenplay. This was repeated by One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in 1976 and The Silence of the Lambs in 1992.
The first colour movie to get the Oscar for Best movie was "Gone with the Wind"
Halle Berry is the only African American to win Best Actress category in Oscar awards.
Beatles have won only one Oscar and that was for the Best Score for "Let It Be" in 1970
The Turning Point and The Color Purple each with 11 nominations and not a single win.
George Clooney has been nominated in a record six Oscar categories )Actor, Supporting Actor, Picture, Director, Original Screenplay and Adapted screenplay and he won in two of them. One for Best Picture "Argo" and the other for Best Supporting Actor in Syriana
Sandra Bullock is the only one to win a Razzie and Oscar in the same year. She won the Razzie for her performance in All About Steve on March 6, 2009, and was awarded the Oscar the following night for The Blind Side.